Ballot case gives Supreme Court chance to re-examine prior ruling
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — An appeal that will determine whether measures that seek to repeal video gambling and a tax on cell phone service are placed on the fall ballot gives the South Dakota Supreme Court a chance to re-examine its own ruling in a 1995 case.
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Casino gambling information:
- In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
- 1994: On New Year's Day Frank Sinatra gives his last Las Vegas performance at the MGM Grand.
1998: Opening of the Bellagio. With 3,026 rooms it is the largest hotel in the world, and also the most expensive - it cost $1.7 billion to build. - The first airplane flight to Las Vegas was made in May, 1920, with Lieutenant Randall Henderson, editor of the Blythe, California Herald, and Jack Beckley.
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
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